Anton’s Hat

So I’ve got loads to do up in Dublin over the next few days.

I have CrunchLudd going on in the evening. It should be a great buzz with 7 great companies demoing on the day and obviously the buxx of meeting a whole bunch of new people again.

I’ll be heading up early though to the dublin open coffee in the morning and I’ll try to drop in to the Silicon Ireland  event at some point.

Then on Friday I’ll be attending a panel at the Darklight festival featuring Damien Mulley and Niall Larkin on privacy in the digital world and later on at 12 to 1:30 I’m standing in to chair a panel  on the future of the web. See here for details

Over the last while I’ve spoken to quite a few people such as Bernie Goldbach and James Corbett (it may have been lost in the blur when I cornered James at Creative Camp Kilkenny and burned his ear about social search, Google and a few other things) as well as quite a few others, about the idea of creating a central list of events that might be of use to startup companies here in Ireland. This is a pain point for me personally as finding out what’s on around the country and even beyond our shores, that might be of use to my business is often a matter of combining luck and knowing where to look. Quite a few of people I talked to about this felt the same way so I commited a while ago to developing the idea. Then during the “beyond open coffee” organised by Bernie, I decided to reveal that it was something we were working on.

I am a great believer in the Nike mantra of “Just do it”, so over the last week I decided to build a version of Ireland Startup Events. It’s not complex or wonderful and not a lot of design work has been done, but what it does do is “what it says on the tin”. It will be kept as up to date and accurate as possible, we may occasionally not know about an event so anyone can register and enter events themselves if they like.

Why?

The idea is to have a list of events which is actively managed, to ensure that it is relatively complete. I feel that is also important that it be quite broad in it’s scope as there are many things which are relevant to startup companies besides technology.

The service is an “alpha” and therefore is not particularly well resourced right now, it will be improved in future iterations if people find it useful. I’d love your thoughts…

http://irelandstartupevents.com

TechLudd is on tonight in the Odessa club 13 Dame Court. Hope to see you there for beers chat and maybe a bit of business. Should be a few interesting folks knocking about.

Register here if you haven’t and see you there at 7pm. Laters…
Now where’s my hat?…

Hi folks. Registration for TechLudd is now open. The first event is on 24 January in Dublin at 7pm, so if you’re interested in start-ups ad what they do, and chatting about what you do, come along and have a cool evening with cool people.

Go on then